Editing Palm (PDA) (section)

===webOS and discontinuation of Palm (2009-2011)===
[[File:Palm Pre .jpg|thumb|left|[[Palm Pre]]]]
Palm's focus following the Zire and Tungsten PDA lines shifted exclusively to smartphones, where the Palm OS operating system as used on the Treos was becoming dated with both the Palm OS and the Window Mobile versions making minor impact in market share when compared to those of RIM ([[BlackBerry]]) and [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] ([[iPhone]]).  In order to try to change this trend, Palm had been working on a new web-based operating system ([[webOS]]), which was an embedded [[Linux]] operating system that hosts a custom [[user interface]] built on standard [[web browser]] technology and offered genuine multi-tasking capabilities through a card based concept where each application ran as a card and the use of gestures to navigate between cards and perform actions.  This platform won much respect from its peers (including praise from [[Steve Jobs]] the cofounder of [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]) but was compromised by some of the shortcuts taken in the hardware for the initial [[webOS]], and indeed Palm's final device offerings, the [[Palm Pre]], and [[Palm Pixi]].<ref name="webos">{{Cite web
  
  | title = Overview of webOS
  | work = Fundamentals, Dev Guide
  | publisher = Palm Developer Center, Palm, Inc.
  | year = 2010
  | url = http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1761&Itemid=42
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090719053316/http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1761
  | archive-date = 19 July 2009
  | access-date = 14 August 2010}}</ref>

Palm released improved versions of both the Pre and Pixi as the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, which contained improved memory capacity or processor updates but did not significantly address some of the limitations of the hardware (e.g. the screen, and CPU) in comparison to other smartphones on the market at the time.

With the acquisition of Palm by HP, the next device to market was the Pre2, which did address the screen and processor issues. This was followed in 2011 by the HP Veer and the HP Pre3, the former being a compact design (the world's smallest smartphone not much bigger than a credit card on release) and the latter showing the hardware potential to compete in the demanding smartphone market, that had expanded to include Google's [[Android (operating system)|Android]], before [[Leo Apotheker]], then HP CEO, abruptly pulled the plug on webOS in August 2011, which caused a dip in HP share value. Apotheker was ousted from Hewlett-Packard later in the year, due in part to criticisms behind his handling of webOS. His successor, [[Meg Whitman]], reaffirmed HP's decision to discontinue the sale and production of webOS hardware devices; Palm's legacy was later maintained by Whitman's decision to support webOS on the software side by taking steps toward open-sourcing webOS and opening it to hardware partners.<ref name="opensource">{{cite web
  | title = HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source
  | publisher = Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
  | year = 2011
  | url = http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111209xa.html
  | access-date = 17 September 2012}}</ref>